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I'm using a Linksys ADSL2MUE which seems to fit the description of what you want.

Here's a review

Here's where I bought mine.

Hope that helps.

just wait till they breed Kitten Kong

Ahem.

The style in all 3 books is quite different. Hobbit is different from LOTR, most of the LOTR is different from the Silmarilion (most, but not all). Not surprising as one of them is intended as a children book, the other a book for adolescents and the Silmarilion is clearly and plainly reading for adults. Most of the cultural and religious aspects of it will be lost to anyone under a certain age (and over it).

In fact IMHO when I think of the Silmarilion, another book comes to my mind which was written at about the same time and printed fully as the author intended only postmortem - Master and Margarita. Both books are children of their time. They were originally envisioned and written at about the same time (pre-WW2) which is characterised by very high interest in legends and spiritualism. They have been edited many times by their authors, and they were never ever printed the way the author intended before their death.

I agree 100% as far as Frank Herbert Jr. There should be a special space in hell reserved for people like him. For people who shit on everything their fathers built.

Also, It is also quite obvious that Herbert Jr has written his books. They are written using the current modern American literature style which is beaten into kids in college. I still remember by own brush up with this experience with horror 15+ years later. It is the same style as used by Terry Brooks, Stephen Donaldson and most of the modern American Sci Fi/Fantasy writers. There are lots of repeats and a single idea is reiterated at least 3-4 times to ensure that the dumb reader gets it. The vocabulary is a fraction of the vocabulary of most of the older generation like Herbert Sr, Zelazny, Le Guin, Bradbury (in fact from the old generation - everybody but Azimov). The overall lexical construction is quite primitive as well. It is quite obvious who wrote these books.

As far as Chris Tolkien the situation is not so straightforward. He published at least one clearly and purely J.R.R. Tolkien Book - the Silmarilion. That was J.R.R. Tolkien all the way and if not for Chris Tolkien, it would have failed to see the light of day (it was published postmortem). The Unifinished Tales seem to be what junior sells them for - drafts, notes and unfinished tales. Looking at the style and vocabulary they also seem to be a J.R.R. Tolkien work, just quite what it says on the tin - unfinished.

I have no idea about this new book, but I hope that he does not join Hurbert junior in that circle of hell. He has done not that bad so far. He has shown some his dad's dirty laundry (stuff j.r.r. never intended to be published) but he has not shit on his grave just yet (or I missed that one in the bookshop).

I agree 100% as far as Frank Herbert Jr. There should be a special space in hell reserved for people like him. For people who shit on everything their fathers built.

Also, It is also quite obvious that Herbert Jr has written his books. They are written using the current modern American literature style which is beaten into kids in college. I still remember by own brush up with this experience with horror 15+ years later. It is the same style as used by Terry Brooks, Stephen Donaldson and most of the modern American Sci Fi/Fantasy writers. There are lots of repeats and a single idea is reiterated at least 3-4 times to ensure that the dumb reader gets it. The vocabulary is a fraction of the vocabulary of most of the older generation like Herbert Sr, Zelazny, Le Guin, Bradbury (in fact from the old generation - everybody but Azimov). The overall lexical construction is quite primitive as well. It is quite obvious who wrote these books.

As far as Chris Tolkien the situation is not so straightforward. He published at least one clearly and purely J.R.R. Tolkien Book - the Silmarilion. That was J.R.R. Tolkien all the way and if not for Chris Tolkien, it would have failed to see the light of day (it was published postmortem). The Unifinished Tales seem to be what junior sells them for - drafts, notes and unfinished tales. Looking at the style and vocabulary they also seem to be a J.R.R. Tolkien work, just quite what it says on the tin - unfinished.

I have no idea about this new book, but I hope that he does not join Hurbert junior in that circle of hell. He has done not that bad so far. He has shown some his dad's dirty laundry (stuff j.r.r. never intended to be published) but he has not shit on his grave just yet (or I missed that one in the bookshop).

and after you spend more on the console how about another £100 ($180) on an extra controller + numbchuck, I'll be waiting a while before buying as I'd want at least one extra controller. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-Wii-Controller/dp /B000IMFNRU/sr=8-41/qid=1158583650/ref=sr_1_41/026 -4423825-4886013?ie=UTF8&s=gateway http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-Wii-Nunchuck-Cont roller-add-/dp/B000IMDMQE/sr=8-46/qid=1158582995/r ef=sr_1_46/026-4423825-4886013?ie=UTF8&s=gateway

and after you spend more on the console how about another £100 ($180) on an extra controller + numbchuck, I'll be waiting a while before buying as I'd want at least one extra controller. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-Wii-Controller/dp /B000IMFNRU/sr=8-41/qid=1158583650/ref=sr_1_41/026 -4423825-4886013?ie=UTF8&s=gateway http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-Wii-Nunchuck-Cont roller-add-/dp/B000IMDMQE/sr=8-46/qid=1158582995/r ef=sr_1_46/026-4423825-4886013?ie=UTF8&s=gateway

There you go old chap.

Sorry to rain in your little parade.

Can't find Xbox 360s in the UK? You can't be looking very hard, as far as I know there's no shortage of Xbox 360s in the UK, hasn't been for months. I live in a smallish town, and my local ASDA and Blockbusters both have consoles, and I think Woolworths and Argos probably have them as well.

Which reminds me that I do not see one of the most banned books by Mark Twain. Nothing have banned as often as Letters from Earth (note that even Amazon says explicitly - uncensored version).

here

see the book at amazon

• A List Apart
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• A List Apart
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10.99 GBP United Kingdom Pounds = 20.9513 USD United States Dollars

Damnation. Broke the link on the first post.

I guess that you have not read this.

Maurice Wilkins, his autobiography is excellent, very readable and gives an insight into the career of a scientist. It also shows the human side of someone who was rather glossed over in the story of the double helix.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/019280667X/026- 7368813-0262849?v=glance&n=266239&s=gateway&v=glan ce/

What Hooke was, was desperately unlucky to live at the same time as Newton. Offset his life 50 years either way and he'd be much better known.

agreed, although its starting to annoy me when they 'Dyson' mainly due to those hov..err vaccum cleaners being rubbish compared to the likes of the mighty Henry http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00008Z9XZ/202- 8882964-3659063?v=glance&n=11052681

Maybe I've been lucky, but I've mainly been able to buy what are ( in my own opinion ) non-sucky games for the PSP. Lumines is fine, and can occupy plenty of time if I'm travelling or whatever. Wipeout Pure is sensational - I love it. OK, so it's not original, but it's still a damn good game, and works fantastically on the PSP. Also, the ability to expand the game by going online and getting more tracks/music/ships is a great idea, and one I'm amazed more games haven't taken advantage of.

I also play the Colin McRae 2005 rally game a lot - again, ideal for travelling - although I admit that it took a larger learning curve than usual to get to grips with some of the (ahem) "features".

As for others, both LocoRoco and Mercury are simple but addictive.

Maybe I've been lucky, but I've mainly been able to buy what are ( in my own opinion ) non-sucky games for the PSP. Lumines is fine, and can occupy plenty of time if I'm travelling or whatever. Wipeout Pure is sensational - I love it. OK, so it's not original, but it's still a damn good game, and works fantastically on the PSP. Also, the ability to expand the game by going online and getting more tracks/music/ships is a great idea, and one I'm amazed more games haven't taken advantage of.

I also play the Colin McRae 2005 rally game a lot - again, ideal for travelling - although I admit that it took a larger learning curve than usual to get to grips with some of the (ahem) "features".

As for others, both LocoRoco and Mercury are simple but addictive.

Maybe I've been lucky, but I've mainly been able to buy what are ( in my own opinion ) non-sucky games for the PSP. Lumines is fine, and can occupy plenty of time if I'm travelling or whatever. Wipeout Pure is sensational - I love it. OK, so it's not original, but it's still a damn good game, and works fantastically on the PSP. Also, the ability to expand the game by going online and getting more tracks/music/ships is a great idea, and one I'm amazed more games haven't taken advantage of.

I also play the Colin McRae 2005 rally game a lot - again, ideal for travelling - although I admit that it took a larger learning curve than usual to get to grips with some of the (ahem) "features".

As for others, both LocoRoco and Mercury are simple but addictive.

I'll see your gold-plated USB cable and raise you a gold-plated OPTICAL cable. Because gold stops... the light... falling out. Or something.

Hello! Welcome to idiot town... population you. You'll want the train to Cluesville, it leaves at seven.

Most of these Silver Bullets are great ideas

A silver bullet is something that will produce an order of magnitude increase in project performance. I take it that you have read the world's best book on Software Development haven't you? I'd recommend the 25th aniversary edition with the Silver Bullet essays in it.

Sure there are good technologies, and idiots who implement them badly. The whole point of the article with in reference however to technologies that make claims that contradict Fred Brooks's essays and the muppets who keep thinking "hey it must be true, its on a poster". They are NOT Silver Bullets, there are no such things as Silver Bullets.

If you haven't read Brooks you shouldn't be in IT.

That is one manifestation. People with that syndrome also think different and quite often have creativity levels above the ordinary. Mozart is one example. There are a few others.

The scientific papers on the matter are not conclusive and the opinion is divided.

As far as the not-so-scientific opinion I suggest you look at Slant by Greg Bear http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1857236114/202- 1869725-1553449?v=glance&n=266239

Oh, and you have obviously not heard Russians swear. Mat' tvoyu... and so on...

I don't know how handy you are, but you could consider making a 'bent.
Take a look at Atomic Zombie's webpages: everything from reasonable recumbents to front-wheel-drive pure-racing designs, all made from scrap bikes and electrical conduit, welded with a cheap arcwelder. If you're willing to invest more time and energy you can build some superb designs. With my projects, I buy reasonable low-end bikes (shimano exage-level components) from local thrift stores, usually for under $40 for a complete bike, and use those partskits to outfit frames. (You do have to buy lots and lots of bike chain, usually new, since splicing used chain rarely works very well.)

Anyway, Atomic Zombie also has a book in which he goes into considerable detail about the design/construction of thirty or so different bikes. I have friends that have built most of them, and several of the people had never welded before building their first strange bikes. You can get a cheap AC welder from the likes of Harbor Freight & Salvage for way under $100.

One of the voodoo priests in Count Zero (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/000648042X/202 -3748552-0791032?v=glance&n=266239) has a Mercedes limousine that drives itself.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009YD2L Q/qid=1151436258/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_0_1/203-2846940-7 714335

or is the API thing the main issue?

I want to see any slashdotter walk 400,000 km. It took Albert Speer thirteen years to walk the equivalent of the circumference of the Earth and he had absolutely nothing else to do with his time during his walk. It took my father 20 years of riding his bike to work every single day before he'd ridden 400,000 km. It's a great idea, but by the time you got there you'd be wishing you'd taken the bus.

While I applaud it, I remember the resurrection of Ren & Stimpy and how it just wasn't quite the same anymore. The making of a popular series can often rest on the frenzy of creating the episodes and the chemistry of those at work on it. Add an interruption, time for other projects and influences, what will become of pulling the team back together? Will it be the same, or will it be like, "well, Bender saying, 'bite my shiny metal asee' doesn't totally suck, but it's just, you know, different now."

Other news in the It's About Time Department:
In other good news, finally on DVD, Yellowbeard! Arr! July 27 for USA & Canada or July 10 for UK No word yet on extras, like Group Madness, the documentary of making of the film.

...or the Red Dwarf book, 'Backwards', which actually starts at the end and tells half the story in reverse

Nope - some are black, some are white (at least in the UK).
amazon.co.uk and again (although you can possibly get them cheaper elsewhere - importing the white one from Australia, for example)

Nope - some are black, some are white (at least in the UK).
amazon.co.uk and again (although you can possibly get them cheaper elsewhere - importing the white one from Australia, for example)

Thanks, I try.

I've used FC3 for a couple years now, I guess, and yum etc. has been finicky as hell. I'm trying your tips.

Be warned that if you've already installed a bunch of random RPMs from random repositories, simply cutting down the list of configured repositories won't help. You'll have to sort out the mess of packages you have installed and decide whose packages you're going to fit everything around. Personally, I pull most of my packages from base/fedoralegacy + rpmforge + dag + freshrpms with good results. My MythTV box uses ATrpms, dag, fedora-extras and freshrpms, and requires a bit more care as ATrpms sometimes includes upgrades of base packages which may not always be desirable (for a MythTV box, it's fine).

Question: "roll your own"? That sounds hard... is it hard? Where to start?

It's not that hard. Start with something small and quite high up the system stack (so it likely won't break anything that uses it!) like elinks or gaim. Installing ccache is probably advisable, since you tend to end up having to run the compile a few times before the package builds correctly (rpm doesn't allow any manual intervention during the build process since the philosophy is that the .spec file should document everything that needs to be done to build the package. Consider it a 'bondage-and-discipline' approach if you like). Finally, there are a couple of books: the Red Hat RPM Guide and Maximum RPM (somewhat dated now, but being revised).

FWIW, if you want to order one, Amazon have 'em for £100. Personally, I've got a lovely black mp3 player which I carry around pretty well everywhere, so I've ordered the white DS just for a nice bit of contrast. Plus, I don't want to look like I'm playing on a PSP...

I'll simply repeat another of my comments from the past about this.

I've been amused by many companies over the years who thought they could save a huge bundle of money, when in reality the staff employed in those functions they want to move makes up perhaps 20% of their organisation but makes the most impact. Do people in a foreign country answering your calls, where it is totally obvious they know not even the most basic things about where you live (and you have waste time and money repeating things twenty times), does that sound good and make you want to use that company? I'll quote Joel Spolsky and Pradeep Singh:

"(Here's something Pradeep Singh taught me today: if only 20% of your staff is programmers, and you can save 50% on salary by outsourcing programmers to India, well, how much of a competitive advantage are you really going to get out of that 10% savings?)"

You also have the additionally huge costs of training those new employees, or outsourcing organisations, up in the ways of the organisation, the products, the technology and you also spend huge amounts of wasted time and money on communication. I've known many banks who've had that experience. A poor call centre worker gets the warm ear treatment from a customer in Europe, US, Canada etc. because the website is throwing up errors and he/she can't complete a transaction. A call is logged and there is a series of frantic phone calls and e-mails to the outsourced programming company in India, who needless to say, haven't got the faintest idea what they're talking about. Also (and this happens even in outsourcing companies situated in the same country but in another part) because they are not physically located in the heat of battle, and within on-site reach, they just don't give a shit. They'll do it when they've got time.

"Because they don't actually work for Bank of America," the engineer replied. "They work for Infosys Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services, which are both in India. They do the work at half the cost of what a U.S. worker gets paid."

Would anyone like to guess how much time, money, effort and resources is going to be spent trying to communicate with these idiots, and actually get anything done?

In short, you need to have your support functions in your company with you completely, and they need to be as close to your paying customers as you can get. If there is a market in India for your products then by all means get close to your customers and open offices in India (and how many BofA customers are in India?). After all the diasters, and let's face it we know companies everywhere have had total outsourcing disasters, I can't beleiev anyone thinks they're still going to save money like this. Idiot CEOs and boards still have this ridiculously stupid fucking idea that the world is a place separated only by a common language - English. I think even British, American and Australian people can agree that that is most certainly not true. I suggest these idiot board members go and read the number one, definitive guide on running a multinational company properly - as well as making some serious profit.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/186197691 7/sr=1-2/qid=1149421474/ref=pd_bowtega_2/202-73591 57-8712641?_encoding=UTF8&s=books&v=glance [amazon.co.uk]

Interesting stuff, must be quite exciting to be the first to see a piece of secret history!
This is an interesting book I read recently on Vigenere, RSA, and others: The Code Book. Good read.

What goes around comes around, as they say. I've been amused by many companies over the years who thought they could save a huge bundle of money, when in reality the staff employed in those functions they want to move makes up perhaps 20% of their organisation but makes the most impact. Do people in a foreign country answering your calls, where it is totally obvious they know not even the most basic things about where you live (and you have waste time and money repeating things twenty times), does that sound good and make you want to use that company? I'll quote Joel Spolsky and Pradeep Singh:

(Here's something Pradeep Singh taught me today: if only 20% of your staff is programmers, and you can save 50% on salary by outsourcing programmers to India, well, how much of a competitive advantage are you really going to get out of that 10% savings?)

You also have the additionally huge costs of training those new employees, or outsourcing organisations, up in the ways of the organisation, the products, the technology and you also spend huge amounts of wasted time and money on communication. I've known many banks who've had that experience. A poor call centre worker gets the warm ear treatment from a customer in Europe, US, Canada etc. because the website is throwing up errors and he/she can't complete a transaction. A call is logged and there is a series of frantic phone calls and e-mails to the outsourced programming company in India, who needless to say, haven't got the faintest idea what they're talking about. Also (and this happens even in outsourcing companies situated in the same country but in another part) because they are not physically located in the heat of battle, and within on-site reach, they just don't give a shit. They'll do it when they've got time.

In short, you need to have your support functions in your company with you completely, and they need to be as close to your paying customers as you can get. If there is a market in India for your products then by all means get close to your customers and open offices in India. Idiot CEOs and boards still have this ridiculously stupid fucking idea that the world is a place separated only by a common language - English. I think even British, American and Australian people can agree that that is most certainly not true. I suggest these idiot board members go and read the number one, definitive guide on running a multinational company properly:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/186197691 7/sr=1-2/qid=1149421474/ref=pd_bowtega_2/202-73591 57-8712641?_encoding=UTF8&s=books&v=glance

What happened here is difficult to tell from the article, but maybe Apple had that sneeking suspision that maybe it just wasn't going to work.

On the other paw, most of these "top N" lists are just pulled out of someone's arse ...

If we didnt have DNS

Last week I purchased a $32 PDF copy of Richard Hamming's amazing book The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn from ebooks.com. I downloaded the PDF, and was unable to read it because the Linux version of Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 does not support the Adobe ebooks DRM standard (other choices were Microsoft DRM and something I've never heard of before). I've been trying to purchase this book for several years but it's out of print and used copies are easily $300 or more. I mailed the company hoping for some solution, but I was only offered a refund.
I really want to read this book. Do I get a refund or try to crack the DRM on something I just bought?
Of course, if I try to crack it, I can be arrested according to the DMCA....
I'm trying to find the consumer value here....

He's referring to this fantastic book, where dialogues between Achilles and the tortoise (c.f. Zeno's Paradoxes) are sometimes used to dramatise various concepts.

So is the story title some sort of back-handed statement about RMS? Mark Haddon's book is a good read, BTW.

Let me add some thoughts here if I may.
To my mind, two things may or may not be legal here.

1. Someone in Russia buying a song from allofmp3.
          I will not comment on this.

2. Someone in the US buying a song from allofmp3 in russia and "importing" it to the US.
          I don't know if this is legal, but it seems that it would be as legal or illegal (assuming number 1 above was legal) as going to say http://www.amazon.co.uk/ and buying a book or CD or DVD that was unavailable in the US and having them ship it to you.

Would anyone care to discuss number 2 further?

all the best,

drew
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Seems I am trying to corner the market in unfinished share-alike novels.

Three essential books for new Linux users...

• Book one, absolutely necessary
  
  
• Book two, highly advisable
  
  
• Book three, most people will also need this one too!
  
  

Three essential books for new Linux users...

• Book one, absolutely necessary
  
  
• Book two, highly advisable
  
  
• Book three, most people will also need this one too!
  
  

Three essential books for new Linux users...

• Book one, absolutely necessary
  
  
• Book two, highly advisable
  
  
• Book three, most people will also need this one too!
  
  

Furthermore, we could not port our C++ code to the umpteen platforms that marketing wanted to target.

See, here you have a requirement that was fulfilled by Java. That's a good reason. Also, you don't mention whether the system was completely rearchitected or not. Anyway, from the reasons given for this guy's question, I don't see a clear requirement, just somehow they think things will magically work better in Java. With many of the new libraries and frameworks like Boost and Qt there isn't the disparity as there once was, perhaps. I'd suggest they define their requirements, goals, develop a prototype (keeping in mind Alexander Cockburn's excellent advice on prototypes - if the prototype doesn't work, don't assume everything will magically work once it's in production!), and also, as you did, reuse the libraries as much as possible, using CORBA or some similar solution, until they can switch over completely.

The Eclipse IDE boosted our productivity considerably, and the product is very successful. So I guess it makes sense.

So what were you using before, vi? Emacs? Maybe if you had switched to Visual Studio (and Eclipse supports C++ too) you could've save alot of trouble ;)

yup yup yup. I currently use keywords for google, google images, traceroute, whois, ebay, wiki, xe.net, php.net, mysql.com (though their website is mostly useless (in comparision with the brilliantly useful php.net)), amazon, archive.org, a file extension search page, and ip2country. yay for bookmarks! your suggestions welcome.

FYI:
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http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=%25s&Su bmit3=Go!
http://whois.webhosting.info/%25s
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search =%25s
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=%25s&From =USD&To=GBP
http://www.ezwhois.net/index.php
http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?satitle =%25s&ht=1&sokeywordredirect=&from=R8&fkr=1&soloct og=9
http://www.php.net/search.php
http://www.mysql.com/search/?q=%25s&charset=
http://puremango.co.uk/ip2country.php?ip=%25s
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle- form/026-9212734-6757257

Greg Egan writes about excactly that in one of the short stories in this book... US hardback version

Quite decent book by the way, my last three weeks of New Scientist are still in the shrink-wrap/lying on the doormat because of it :)